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i have a question...

is there an animal that lives on land but doesn't move?

I only know of marine animals tha do not move

Oh c'mon is this the best you can do?

Mealworms in a pupa stage do not move but are not dead http://www.valdosta.edu/~kabuchan/imageGL0.JPG

Eeek! worms

no i knew that about the mealworms in that certain stage, but im talking about a land animal that NEVER moves but its still survives...

my teacher asked us this question but i think its a trick question.

I was going to say a butterfly in the chrysalis stage, but they do move eventually... Hmm... Well, there are things like monerans and a few types of protists that live on land and never move, 'course, those aren't true animals... Huh... No idea...

Queen ants and termites hardly move... Once they've reached that stage of life... Then you have dead things which are technically organisms... Maybe if that was the wording your teacher used it'd work--"organism" instead of "living"... Dammit Hock you're driving me crazy!

damn i still think this is a trick question.

DR> lol

!!!!!

i cant find an answer! i been thinkin hard.

"Name an animal that lives on land but NEVER moves"

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What was the exact wording your teacher used? And did he/she actually say there was a land animal that didn't move?

I GOT IT!!!!

i think my answer is right!

Barnacles- they live on cemented rocks and NEVER move. they live near ocean shore but im sure they never move.

or coral

true^

wait never mind those organizams live in the water

not always^



i think

No.. They need water or they'll dry out and die...

And coral always lives in water

DAMN!

yea but barnacles need water to survive, they dont live in water...they just live near the water hmmm

ima ask my teacher.

yes... It might work, depending on what his/her definition of "land" animal is.

wow i thought the title of this thread said something elseeee but it says ORGANISMS not umm ::runs out of thread::

LMAO

I too misread the title. Damn.

lol

wow, i read the title of this thread and for a second there i thougt it said orgasims.

Well, one of the conditions of being an organism IS movement... Therefore, per definition, it can't be But I'm not sure.



ermm... Me too

Well when a Man loves a women very much, they find a special way to express their love...

Awww Crap!!

Still I think your teacher is messing with you!

That does not move.....Well if I were in grade 6 still I would know the answer cause we did organisms then...

I doubt there is such an animal HH

I agree with Fire. I truly do not believe there is a true "animal" that dwells on land and does not ever move. There are other things, like some types of monerans and fungus-like protists, but no animals. I'm curious to see what your teacher says, though.

well today in class we didn't have time to discuss but tommorow he will give us the answer...

i still think its a trick question

i miss read the title, it kinda confused me. i thought it said orgasims. and i'm like 'why would someone even post about that?!' but it's organisims. wow, blonde moment...

That's an easy one it's a form of Plant it's the Venus Fly Trap it's said to have a certain intellegence it can never move but it can kill.

their a seven things an organism must do to be classified as living
Move, respire, resond to stimulii, grow, reproduce, excrete and survive on nutrients if it doesnt do one of these things its not classified as alive thats what ive been taught but my biology teachers a bit of a mong ..... all things move though it may just be the cells inside them so we cant see teh movement .

Has to be an animal? right?

yes it has to be an animal...and i believe Venus Fly Trap are classified as plants.

the teacher will give us answer tommrowo

maybe

Arrrg, I should have asked my AP bio teacher .. oh, well

Class Maxillopoda
No more than 11 trunk appendages. First pair of trunk appendages modified as maxillipeds.
Order Cirripedia Barnacles. SESSILE parasitic and free-living crustacea. Body enclosed in bivalved caraace. Antennae reduced or absent.
OOOOHhh, this one is marine

hmmm

The Venus Fly Trap has been classified depending on the species as an animal. It has all of the classifications of a living organisims

Godshinto> we asked him if it was a venus fly trap,he just said "your on the right track, but its not a type of plant"

so i dunno

and great sig man.

Thanx for the compliment I am one of the origional sig creators here. As for it not being a type of plant what about a Mexican Jumping Bean. Although that's kind of redundant.

i dont think thats valid

well we asked him today but he just changed to subject

tommorow he has to answer the question!

No... Like I said, I can think of a million consumers that live on land and don't move, but he said "animal"... and if it's not a true animal I'll be very disappointed

no... there are just three things: It must be made of cells, respond to stimuli (both external stimuli and internal stimuli count), and be able to reproduce on its own

Like plants are living but they don't move, nor do they breathe, nor do they genarate fecal matter, nor do they survive on true "nutrients"

To be considered an animal, an organism must be:
1. Eukaryotic (having cell nuclei)
2. A consumer (consumes other organisms for energy rather than using sunlight)
3. Multicellular
4. Posessing free movement (growing, as with a plant doesn't count as free movement, nor does the type of movement a Venus fly trap is capable of--basically it has to be able to get up and move around)
5. Not posessing cell walls

Venus fly traps are plants. They meet all of the criteria for being plants. The only thing unusual about them is that they can digest other organisms for food. However, they can still produce their own food, making them plants. That and the fact that you can actually see them move, but as I said before, it still doesn't count as free movement since they can't pick up and move to a different place if they run out of resources where they are.

Erm well that was just my limited view of biology .... being wrong.

OK so those where the 7 main characteristics i learnt you r probably right i just wanted to point out plants do move - they grow towards the sun (free movement), respire doesnt mean breathe it is the action of releasing energy from food which a plant does (photosynthesis) and they do survive on nutrients (if i could be bothered i could find out which ones but just too lazy) which they take up from the soil.

But your probably right about the classifying of an animal thing my biolagy teachers a complete prat soooooo my biology knoledge aint that great.

Well I know different people use different systems of classification so...

i think i heard of this huge fungi plant thats even bigger than the Blue whale, and it's all spred out, somewhere in Europe. I think its like a mile big or so(it's all connected), but it is a living organism, and it definitely doesn't move, and it's on land. i think that may be it!!!!

It's not an animal though

And if fungi counted well... There are thousands of answers

no fungi is not considered an Animal. Its an organism. i think i should have changed teh thread title to Question on Animals

Got it!
My brother. All he does is sit on his fat a** all day.
Does that count?

So what was the answer to the question? which terrestial animal is sessile?

well we asked my teacher...but he said he will give the answer right after we learn Chapter 29...

I want to know

Which chapter are you in now...?

I don't like your teacher

We used a book called Introduction to Biology, right now, we're studying about Immune Response
We have less than 4 chapters left to finish the book

I was talking to Hockey, silly

one student in my class asked him "Which chapter are we currently on?" he said between 25-29.


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okaaaaaayyyy

the class is really hard. the entire sophmore class only has 21 kids in that class. Im one of them

dont worry ill get an answer soon

i hope

You better... 'Cause if you don't... *cracks knuckles threateningly*

oops

DR> o crap *runs*